NHS doctors: the flogged and the furious | Sophia Teoh

As someone within the profession who is directly affected, I can reveal many reasons why the proposed NHS junior doctor contracts are enraging medics

Some of you may have been following the news about junior doctor contracts. You may have heard about the recent protest in Westminster. It will be unsurprising if you haven't - coverage has been fairly scanty. The term "junior doctor" encompasses all doctors who are not consultants or fully fledged GPs. I qualified in 2006 and have worked for the NHS for the last nine years, and am currently a paediatric registrar. I am a junior doctor and I am angry.

In the last few weeks, junior doctors have been told that the British government wishes to impose a new contract on us. Not negotiate. Impose. You may have read about the British Medical Association (BMA) walking away from negotiations with the government. This is true. Less widely publicised is that fact that the BMA were also told the new contract would be imposed regardless of whether they cooperated with the government or not. Negotiations (meaning a discussion to come to a compromise or agreement) subsequently fell apart.